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Thread ID: 103669	2009-10-02 06:48:00	Burglary 1973	Twelvevolts (5457)	PC World Chat

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816109	2009-10-02 06:48:00	Just found an old newspaper whilst doing some renovation, Evening Post from 1973. Burglary in Lower Hutt and a television stolen. Now what would you guess the value of a tele was back then given that you could get a returrn trip to Melbourne for $79. Well I recall electronics were expensive back then but the value of the stolen television was given as $9000. That must have been one special TV.	Twelvevolts (5457)
816110	2009-10-02 07:53:00	Wow, well it wasn't a Philips K9, they were "only" $1200 in 1973 :) www.stuff.co.nz	Terry Porritt (14)
816111	2009-10-02 08:34:00	Wow, well it wasn't a Philips K9, they were "only" $1200 in 1973 :) www.stuff.co.nz Wasn't a Pye Vidmatic either.	Twelvevolts (5457)
816112	2009-10-02 16:59:00	Now what would you guess the value of a tele was back then given that you could get a returrn trip to Melbourne for $79. Drat. I just paid $370 for my return fare! At that rate do you have to flap the plane's wings?	Greg (193)
816113	2009-10-02 23:10:00	Probably just a rip off so the Insurance Co coughed up. Rip offs still apply today do they not? Or possibly poor reporting and research. Either / or.	Sweep (90)
816114	2009-10-02 23:26:00	Maybe a misplaced decimal? $90.00?	the_bogan (9949)
816115	2009-10-03 02:46:00	Or $900.00 possibly. At least it was after 10th July 1967 in which case it would have been reported in dollars instead of Pounds, Shillings and Pence or maybe imported from the USA in which case currency conversion may have gone wrong on the day. Maybe it was in Yen at that time. Who knows.	Sweep (90)
816116	2009-10-03 10:42:00	Or $900.00 possibly. At least it was after 10th July 1967 in which case it would have been reported in dollars instead of Pounds, Shillings and Pence or maybe imported from the USA in which case currency conversion may have gone wrong on the day. Maybe it was in Yen at that time. Who knows. It definitely says $9000, although I reckon TV's were mostly in the $2000 range in those days, colour was just coming out. Bought my first VHS recorder in 1980 and it was worth $2000 at that time.	Twelvevolts (5457)
816117	2009-10-04 08:18:00	I was in the trade back then and the highest price was about $1600 for a top of the line Philips Console. There were no exotic imports either, because of our unique transmission parameters. You got a standard NZ model or none at all. Special private imports required conversion to work here but even then they wouldn't have been that kind of price. US imports wouldn't work here, wrong system. The only sets you could convert for NZ use were English or some European on the 625 line PAL system (not French, which was Secam and 819 lines). Its a either a typo, or the value of all good stolen and the paper got it wrong. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
816118	2009-10-04 09:00:00	It definitely says $9000, although I reckon TV's were mostly in the $2000 range in those days, colour was just coming out. Bought my first VHS recorder in 1980 and it was worth $2000 at that time. Oh dear. A mistake. Possibly you meant you paid $2000 in 1980 but was it worth it? What is the said recorder worth now? And do you still own it? And does it still work?	Sweep (90)
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